The fact that they didn't have a major press conference had absolutely nothing to do with why they didn't do too well with E3.

They said that we'd get Smash Bros., Mario, Mario Kart, and Zelda, and technically we did. That's great, but we just didn't get too much else. It was mostly Nintendo just checking these promised things off a list instead of offering crazy new surprises.

They didn't need a press conference. They did what they needed to do with the Nintendo Direct. The problem is that they didn't do much else.

Wii U will be selling like crazy in 2014. This is the game that many people including myself have been waiting for. Now we just need a price cut to about $250-$300 to seal the deal. That way the gap between the price of Wii U and PS4 is quite large and will be the go to budget system.

I agree with the it needs a price cut, also needs a bigger hard drive. And will see if it sells like mad, imo a lot of the games they showed at e3 including smash where already known about and many of the people who want t those games went and got a wiiu already.

This might be a silly questions but do people actually run out of space that easily? I mean the Wii U has 32 gb, while the wii had 512mb on its flashrom, and I didn't use it all up. I know the ps4 and xbox one have 500GB of space, but it all just depends on how many games you download right? I guess since Nintendo's downloadable games aren't as popular as their physical discs, you don't need as much space. Well, I dunno, have you used most of the 32gb on your wii u? Mine is mostly empty since there haven't been that many great games.

I was thinking the same thing, I never filled my Wii space. VC games don't even take much space and all Wii U games would be bought physical copies not digitally downloaded. So I don't really mind the 32 gb of space.

I think part of the reason why it's so predictable is because of the previous directs, that kept revealing small things. I mean, was anyone predicting DK Country from Retro? I don't think many were, because no previous information was revealed. (I was personally hoping it was Metroid.)

Everyone knew a 3D mario was coming, everyone anticipated the mario kart and smash bros. The news about HD Wind Waker already came out. People knew about Pokemon X and Y. People knew about Pikmin 3. So, maybe it's not that they've become too predictable, maybe it's because nothing new came up (since everything they covered at E3 was basically already revealed). Though 3D Mario, Mario Kart, smash bros, and zelda are pretty predictable, since they are all really old ip.

A nice surprise was Monolith Soft's X. That was fun.

For MS and Sony, they kept things mostly secret until E3, so mostly every game came as surprise-ish. besides halo and sequel stuff like that.

Just to give out a little taste of how Nintendo is looking, here's what we know. Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Rayman: Legends and Wach Dogs (Ubisoft) are coming before the year end. Dues Ex: HRDC (Square Enix) is coming. Did Nintendo really need more then to show off its 1st games? I personally think that's amazing. Nintendo showed 1st party games Super Mario 3D World and Donkey Kong: TF (Nintendo). Throw in Zelda: WW HD remake (Nintendo) and there's your Christmas holiday season. For Nintendo it's Game Over, what?